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A race war is just what those in power seem to want. All it will result in is loads of bloodshed and then in the end they'll use it as an excuse to be more heavy handed and controlling in the same way they're using the "war on terror" to take away more and. more of our freedoms and invading our privacy more and more. Eventually you won't be able to take a shit in privacy. It's stupid. It's a lose-lose situation for all but those at the top. If that did happen I'd defend myself and my family, I don't start fights but I don't take any shit either.

You do realize that the allies had their fair share of war crimes. The only difference between them and the Nazis is that for one, their's weren't publicized much if at all and they were, of course, on a smaller scale. But they were there none the less. Shooting of prisoners as well as the rapes of countless women.

Depending on how they conducted themselves, all sides might find me annoying. My very marriage would rankle them. ;) I would be neutral, but I would promptly deck anyone who messed with me or my family, whether black, white, or anything in between.

No, this whole racial division crap is just flat out stupid, whites in the 1800's - 1960's where just plain dumb to think they are better than anyone becayse they are white, and certain (defiantly not all) African Americans are equally as stupid to believe they deserve special treatement for being black. Race is literally just a fucking skin pigmentation, now back to your question, if there was a war I would use the ensuing chaos to loot, and make money not fall into the stupidity

Hell No, I'm not a big fan of my race... I'll go with Germany if I had to choose a country.

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Listen sucka. I’m blacker than the ace of spades and more militant than you and your whole damned army put together. And while you’re out there chanting at rallies and brow beating politicians, I’m taking out any money frontin’ sucker on a humble that gets in my way, so I'll tell you what. When your so-called Revolution starts, you call me and I'll be right down in front showing you how it's done. But until then, you need to SHUT THE FUCK UP when grown folks is talkin!

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“So where do you think America might divide itself into two factions that could fight a sustained civil war?" Reuben demanded.

"I do say that. But the geographical division is still clear. The Northeast and the West Coast against the South and the middle, with some states torn apart because they're so evenly balanced."

"No one's going to fight over those differences."

tor**** smiled his maddening superior smile. "The rhetoric today is already as hot-blooded and insane and hate-filled as it was over slavery before the first Civil War-and even then, most people refused to believe war was possible until Fort Sumter fell."

"One thing," said Reuben. "One tiny thing."

"Yes?" said tor****.

"The U. S. Army is absolutely dominated by red-state ideals. There are some blue-staters, yes, of course. But you don't join the military, as a general rule, unless you share much of the red-state ideology."

"So because the red-staters control the Army, you think there can't be a civil war... What if the White House were in the control of blue-staters? What if the President ordered American troops to fire on American citizens who fought for red-state ideals?"

"We obey the President, sir."

"Because you're thinking you'd be called to fire on neo-fascist militia nut groups from Montana," said tor****. "What if you were told to fire on the Alabama National Guard?"

"If Alabama was in rebellion, then I'd do it at once."

"If," said tor****. "We just got our first 'if' from Soldier Boy. You would obey the President 'if.'" tor**** grinned in triumph. "Civil wars are fought when leaders find out what those 'ifs' are and exploit them. I would only shoot at my neighbor 'if.' And then a politician tells you that the 'if' has happened."

They all regarded tor**** in silence, waiting for the clincher that they knew was coming.

"The ideology doesn't matter. You're right, no one cares enough. So here's when you'll get ready to shoot your neighbor: When you're convinced that your neighbor is arming himself to shoot you.”

Reuben well knew how that worked. Few Serbs, Croats, or Muslims in the old Yugoslavia even imagined they could go to war-the intermarriage rate was so high that it was obvious you could never sort out one group from another.

But all it took was a handful of nuts with guns shooting at you because your parents were Croats, even if you never cared. If they're attacking you because you're part of a group, then when you fire back, you do it as a member of that group. "You get forced onto one side or the other whether you want to or not," said Reuben, "once the bullets start to fly."

"The bullets don't even have to fly," said tor****, nodding. "You just have to believe they're trying to shoot you. Wars are fought because we believe the other team's threats."

"Which suggests," said Reuben, "that wars are also lost because one side didn't believe until it was too late.”